Good, it's going to be a Flyer!


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Posted by Chris Case [107.201.30.23] on Wednesday, August 06, 2014 at 21:34:42 :

In Reply to: Coming soon- another piece of history posted by Johnd [71.246.83.193] on Wednesday, August 06, 2014 at 19:36:56 :

I'm glad it is going to fly, not being restored for static display only.

My Dad, RIP, was an ordnance handler (bomb loader) on Tinian, and his first airplane flight was as an observer in a B-29. They flew a test flight and dropped one bomb on the Japanese on the neighboring island of Rota. Seems there were a few hold outs there, and their vegetable patch made a good target.

He brought back some Nose Art photos that he won from a photographer in the perpetual poker game on the way back. (Nothing else to do as deck cargo on a battle ship.) He complained that once they got real live female nurses on the island the babes had to get painted over. Pretty tame by today's standards, except maybe "The Purple Shaft" I think they painted fletching on it to make it look like an arrow.

I guess I should scan them into JPGs.



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